.info How many people inadvertently type the .com of a .biz or .info domain name?

[Azam.biz]

I recently sold the domain name azam.com. I own many of the other azam TLDs such as .biz, .info. .us and some of them are developed into fully-fledged websites. From your experience/know-how do you think there is a danger that I will lose traffic to azam.com - which I no longer own - if I use azam.us, azam.info etc.? I can stomach losing 0.2% but not, say, 2%.

Have studies been done to demonstrate how many people inadvertently type the .com of a .biz or .info site?

Cheers :p

 

[AdoptableDomains]

I don't know any numbers, but I'd speculate it to be higher than 2%, at least if you are talking type-ins. It would partially depend on how much traffic came from type-ins vs. from links and search engines.

 

[Epic]

Definately higher than 2%. I'm a web-savvy person and I inadvertently type .com instead of other extensions all the time.

 

[Rush]

2% is just extremely low, i would say definitely a minimum of 30-40%.

Suppose for example u had the domain Wii.us, i am sure that most of the people would just type in the .com even before thinking about the .us

 

[dongan]

not sure in terms of percentage. but, there will be definitely big loss in traffic.

 

[peter phillips]

As mentioned above, the loss will be definitely be more than 2%. Most of people while typing in a name in the address bar type .com first than any other extension.

 

[primacomputer]

This will depend on how many people type the name in. Some sites get a lot of typein traffic and some get nearly everything from search engines and links. The more people you have typing it in the more chance of a mistake.

As for figures, I have a small spoof site that is so obscure and static that I can't imagine anyone would find it except through a link or a search engine, and they would probably not come back for a second visit. I have the .com and .org of the name. The .org is what I promote but the .com also points to the site. 15% of the typein traffic goes to the .com. I would have to consider this the bare minimum amount of typein traffic a site could loose. It could only go up from there. Way up.

 

[-JDT-]

A lot.